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Color of Justice by J. Leon Pridgen II has a very high rating on Goodreads and that was what attracted me to this book. I was under the impression that it is a legal thriller, so I was expecting to be treated to exciting court trials. On that front, I was in for a big disappointment. The novel is at ...

In “If You Knew Her” by Emily Elgar, young and beautiful Cassie Jensen lies in a coma in a hospital ward after a hit-and-run accident. Frank Ashcroft,  a male patient in the same ward, is in a sort of comatose but unknown to the others, he is in locked-in-syndrome and can see and hear what is going on around him ...

Fiddlers is the 52nd and the last instalment in the 87th Precinct series of police procedural novels written by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter). The author, hailed as the father of police procedural and one of the greats of crime fiction, died in July 2005 from cancer and this novel was published posthumously in the same year. A blind ...

Two O’Clock Boy is the stunning eponymous debut novel from author Mark Hill. It is a story that grabs you by the throat and never let go. Moving between the present day investigations and the weeks in 1984 after Connor Laird first went to Longacre Children’s Home, readers are taken on a thrill ride full of twists, shocks and complete ...

Painkiller by N.J. Fountain begins with the protagonist finding a suicide note written by her to her husband Dominic. Dear Dominic, I am sorry I have to write this, but not as sorry as I feel that you have to read this. I cannot go on like this. I really do not wish to leave you, but my body is still ...

Black Widow by Chris Brookmyre was such an enjoyable read that I immediately started reading another novel with the same title written by Jessie Keane. Black Widow by Jessie Keane is a follow up to her highly-rated Dirty Game which I have not read. Annie Carter is living in Majorca, Spain, with her daughter Layla and husband, Max, enjoying life ...

The Guardian hailed Black Widow by Scottish crime master Christopher Brookmyre as exceptionally good.  I agree wholeheartedly! I finished reading it in one day, staying up till almost midnight to finish it. I’ve my fair share of disappointment with quite a number of psychological thrillers that fail to live up to the hype surrounding them, arousing in me a sense of fatigue. ...

If I have known that The Final Seven by Erica Spindler is a supernatural thriller, I would not have read it as I have never been a fan of the supernatural or fantasy genres of books. The only reason I chose the book was because of its good ratings on Goodreads. The Final Seven is a story of light vs. ...

The Book Of You by Claire Kendal is a terrifying and disturbing psychological thriller about obsession, sexual perversion and stalking. I was really engrossed and felt really apprehensive for the protagonist as the story hurtled to its final. But I have to admit that I was disappointed by the ending. Clarissa, 38, is secretary to a university department head and ...

I have set myself a reading target of 12 books for the month of December and “Shifu, You’ll Do Anything For A Laugh” by Mo Yan is the first book that I have finished reading. “Shifu, You’ll Do Anything For A Laugh” is a collection of eight abrasive, bizarre and imaginative stories written in the 1980s and 1990s that give an ...